Title: Collection of Material About the Book of Wealth and the Book of the Fair (H.H. Bancroft & Co.),

Date (inclusive): 1890-1900

Collection number: 938

Extent: 10 boxes (5.0 linear ft.)
21 oversize boxes

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Abstract: Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) established a bookselling and publishing business in San Francisco. The collection consists
of engraving plates, portfolios with prints, and editions of Hubert Howe Bancroft's
Book of the Fair and
Book of Wealth. Includes cygne noir edition, author's editions, and sections of the deluxe edition of the
Book of Wealth, and an incomplete 1893 text and an imperfect copy of the
Book of the Fair.

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

[Identification of item], Collection of Material About the Book of Wealth and the Book of the Fair (H.H. Bancroft & Co.) (Collection
938). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

Hubert Howe Bancroft was born on May 5, 1832 in Granville, Ohio; worked in his brother-in-law's bookstore in Buffalo, New
York, 1848-52; went to California in 1852 and established a bookselling and publishing business in San Francisco; gathered
material on the West, eventually publishing 39 volumes of his works covering the American and Canadian West, Central America,
and Mexico; collected 60,000 volumes of history, manuscripts, and personal narratives, which he donated to the University
of California in 1905; he died on March 2, 1918 in Walnut Creek, California.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of engraving plates, portfolios with prints, and editions of Hubert Howe Bancroft's
Book of the Fair (Chicago and San Francisco, 1893) and
Book of Wealth (published under the title:
Achievements of Civilization: the Book of Wealth ... in New York, 1898). Includes cygne noir edition, author's editions, and sections of the deluxe edition of the
Book of Wealth, and an incomplete 1893 text and an imperfect copy of the
Book of the Fair (10 volumes).

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:

Book of Wealth materials (Boxes 1-25).

Book of the Fair materials (Boxes 25-31).

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.